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Christmas Dealmaster gets caught slinging

Slinging a Slingbox for $118.99, that is! Sorry, I've been watching The Wire.

Ho, ho, ho, Merry Nondenominational ChristmaHanuKwanzaakkah to you all, Arsians! Whatever you happen to be celebrating this month, there's a good chance that it involves being at a relative's house, and that means that you're probably stuck watching something on TV that you can't stand. Our partners at LogicBuy have the solution, though: a great deal on a Sling Media Slingbox 350, which'll let you take the stuff you actually do want to watch and send it to your smartphone, even if you're not home!

Of course, if you're already at your holiday destination, buying one of these things won't help you this time around—planning is the key. On the other hand, this particular deal is through Amazon, and if you've got Amazon Prime, there's still time to get an order in for delivery on Christmas Eve!

Lee Hutchinson
Lee is the Senior Technology Editor at Ars and oversees gadget, automotive, IT, and culture content. He also knows stuff about enterprise storage, security, and manned space flight. Lee is based in Houston, TX. Emaillee.hutchinson@arstechnica.com//Twitter@Lee_Ars

Argh! Just wish the sentiment based on what *you* follow! Why is that so hard for people to get? If you celebrate Christmas, wish a Merry Christmas. If you celebrate Hanukkah, wish a Happy Hanukkah. If you celebrate nothing, well, Seasons Greetings or Happy Solstice or Festivus or just say s'up. And so on. It's a personal sentiment expressed from *your* culture and celebration and well meant.

... Unlike that Slingbox which looks like someone's car grille. What is it? WHY is it?

Argh! Just wish the sentiment based on what *you* follow! Why is that so hard for people to get? If you celebrate Christmas, wish a Merry Christmas. If you celebrate Hanukkah, wish a Happy Hanukkah. If you celebrate nothing, well, Seasons Greetings or Happy Solstice or Festivus or just say s'up. And so on. It's a personal sentiment expressed from *your* culture and celebration and well meant.

Why don't we just add that to HTML 6, and it'll be solved so that no reader has to see different cultural references again. So long as they know how to adjust their browser settings.

Argh! Just wish the sentiment based on what *you* follow! Why is that so hard for people to get? If you celebrate Christmas, wish a Merry Christmas. If you celebrate Hanukkah, wish a Happy Hanukkah. If you celebrate nothing, well, Seasons Greetings or Happy Solstice or Festivus or just say s'up. And so on. It's a personal sentiment expressed from *your* culture and celebration and well meant.

Why don't we just add that to HTML 6, and it'll be solved so that no reader has to see different cultural references again. So long as they know how to adjust their browser settings.

<greeting type="seasonal" timeframe="winter" may_be_religious=1 />

Actually, I think the proposal was such that readers would be exposed to different cultural references, without the hedging that ChristmaHanuKwanzaakkah provides. Your proposal appears to avoid the hedging by only displaying what the user wants to see.